Dawn vs SPSC
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Dawn
Access breaking news, business updates, sports scores, entertainment news, and opinion pieces from Pakistan and around the world. This app provides a comprehensive news experience with features like push notifications and offline reading.
- Breaking news push notifications
- Offline story downloads
- Social media sharing
- Bookmark favorite stories
- Post and view comments
- Automatic background updates
- Full news category access
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The latest news from Pakistan and the world is at your fingertips with Dawn.com’s free mobile app. We bring you breaking news, business, sports, entertainment, blogs, informed opinion and more from the combined platforms of Dawn.com, the Dawn Newspaper and the DawnNews TV channel. Key features: • Push Notifications for breaking news stories • Downloads latest stories (up to 30 for each section) for fast browsing • Share stories to Facebook, Twitter, email, SMS and more • Bookmark your favorite stories for easy accessibility • Post comments and view all comments on stories • App automatically updates every hour in the background • Access the full range of our news categories • Landscape support
SPSC
This app processes applications, conducts examinations, tests, and interviews for requisitions from Sindh government departments. It follows a laid-down procedure for scrutiny and application processing.
- Application scrutiny
- Requisition processing
- Examination conduct
- Test administration
- Interview scheduling
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The major functional task of the Commission is directed towards scrutiny of requisitions, processing of applications, conduct of examinations, tests and interviews for the requisitions received from various Departments of Sindh as per laid down procedure.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: SPSC at 3.7 against Dawn's 2.1. SPSC also leads on iOS requirement (13.0 vs 15.1). Dawn's advantage is ratings volume (125 vs 3) and review sentiment (9% vs 0%). On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
SPSC holds the better App Store score, 3.7 against 2.1. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Dawn has 125 ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 9% of Dawn's written reviews are positive against 0% of SPSC's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Dawn ships an update every 11 days, SPSC every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 22, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Dawn | SPSC |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.1 (125 ratings) | 3.7 (3 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 9.3% of reviews — better | 0.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 125 — better | 3 |
| Update frequency | Every 11 days — better | Every 3 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 | 13.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 17 MB | 18 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | +4 |
| Developer | Dawn Media Group | Sindh Public Service Commission |
Customer experience
Dawn
SPSC
Bugs and requests
Dawn
Reported bugs
4 issues- App crashes on launch
- Scrolling issues within articles
- Compatibility problems with iOS 12
- Frequent freezing and unresponsiveness
Requested features
4 requests- Update the app for iOS 12
- Improve font size and readability
- Add more customization options
- Enhance the overall user experience
SPSC
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Dawn
No in-app purchases
SPSC
No in-app purchases
